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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by gjm11 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:15PM (#20170331)
For Fizzbuzz purposes, you only need to know what happens when both numbers involved are nonnegative, which so far as I know is consistent everywhere.

(I deal with the other cases by making sure only to use % or similar on nonnegative numbers. If I ever encounter a case where I need to take remainders and performance is so important that I can't afford to do that, I'll double-check with the language documentation and leave a comment saying what the actual behaviour is. That's never happened yet.)

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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by perl4ever on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:16PM (#20170707)
It's pretty common for people to be very focused on the trivia they know as a litmus test for judging other people, while dismissing trivia they don't know as irrelevant.

I don't have concrete reasons for thinking so, but my general impression is that this attitude is significantly more common in IT than other environments.

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